Thanksgiving/Birthday Weekend

This trip has been an extremely fabulous trip! Every thing about my trip has been wonderful! I got to spend some time with great friends and truly amazing family! I had many of my favorite things about California. BJ's, In-N-Out Burger, Golden Spoon! This trip has been a miracle from the beginning. I have so many things to be thankful for! I have totally awesome parents who love and support me in every thing I do. Brother's who care about me and are willing to do anything. Even keep a secret from Mom and Dad ;) (Thanks Curtis!) I have incredible friends like the Sorensons who have taken me and adopted me into their family and taught me many great and wonderful things. I am so grateful they are apart of my life. I even have old friends who take time out of there busy schedule to come and have dinner with me and my two families on my birthday. I am so grateful for my car that works and is able to get me back and forth from Utah to California and not break down and work correctly! I am grateful for the totally fabulous place to live and the great roommates I have! I know these things are all the things that everyone is grateful for but they are the essential things of life. And the thing that I am most greatful for is my testimony in my Savior, Jesus Christ. He is my best friend! And I am able to do all the things I can is because of him and all the things I have are becuase He loves me enough to give them to me! (Even my trials, becuase He trusts me and knows that I can handle them with his help!) I have so many things to be grateful for, I am so blessed! In this season of Christmas may we all remember the real meaning of Christmas...Christ! I love you all and hope that the Lord blesses your life as he has mine! Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!

SURPRISE! Happy Thanksgiving!

So this is probably the best Thanksgiving so far! For the last four months I've been planning on coming home for Thanksgiving. From the beginning I was going to surprise my parents. So yesterday about 10:45 in the morning I rang the door bell at their house. It took a minute for her to open the door. When she opened the door she was kinda wary. It took her a second to realize who was standing in front of her. That was fun. And then BAM it hit. That was the awesome part! And then she gave her a hug! I guess I didn't know how much I missed my mom or needed her until then! It was sur fun to surprise her! There is nothing like having a good surprise for someone you love! Dad was surprised and that was nice to see him too! All in all I guess the reactions were all what I expected! But gosh it was incredible!

This is mom's face!

Another of mom's face (I dont look to bad)

The End!

The rest of Thanksgiving was just as wonderful. After the excitement kinda wore down. Cause if you know my mom when she's excited! We went to Mimi's for a small lunch. Didn't want to eat too much becuase there was yummy turkey to come. Later we went over to Harding's for Thanksgiving dinner. That was so wonderful. I am so grateful that my brother is marrying into such a wonderful family! We are so lucky to be there In-laws! Over all the 12 hour drive I took to get here was totally worth every second! I've only been on vacation for two days and its not over with yet! More wonderful to come! I look forward to it!

Happy Thanksgiving! May the Lord bless you all as he has blessed me with your love, support and friendship!

Personal Make Over

So within the last week I have taken it upon myself to do a personal make over. I have lost 10 pounds and so I wanted to look the way I feel! Fabulous! So last Friday I went and had my haircut and slightly colored. It is a little darker but not much. And then I decided that my face could use a little help so I started to wear make up! Yeah me with make up, well it actually looks really good! And I'm not horrible at putting it on! Anyway so today since my pants kinda look "saggin' baggin'" on me I decided it was time to go shopping! Yes one of my favorite things to do! SHOPPING! (If you want gift ideas for my birthday or christmas, Lane Bryant gift cards!) So I first went to Old Navy. I love Old Navy. You can usually find good deals there if you are patient which I'm usually not sometimes. Depends on the friend I'm with. Anyway they didn't really have anything that pinched me so I decided to go over to Lane Bryant. I found some amazing deals and things there!

Ladies, if your looking for something to wear, trust me go to Lane Bryant because they are amazing! They really know how do dress a womans body! They have three different pant cuts depending on your curvyness (or in my case, lack of) Its amazing! And they have the best bras too!

Well anyway. Today was a victory. I didn't totally hate the shopping experience because it didnt make me feel fat (which is what shopping usually does, remind you how fat you are) but it made me feel awesomly incredible because I found clothes that fit me and look fabulous!

Frustrated

Well as anyone who knows me knows that I always look at the glass and its half empty. Well I am frustrated because I feel like I have a glass thats totally empty! I think I try to fill it up and while I'm feeling it up I don't realize that I knocked it over a long time ago. One of these days I'll realize that its knocked over and set it up and start filling it again. One of these day's I'll stop disappointing myself.

Well on a lighter note. Last week I took a sick of it day from work and stayed home and got my hair cut and dyed. Yeah, I know I have never been a fan of hair coloring. Well long story short I LOVE it! Here is a picture but if you want to see more I have more on my facebook. This one is my favorite.

Its Been A While

I know its been a while since I have blogged. This is true. Honestly I really don't have any real reason. There have been plenty of things that I have wanted to blog about. Some I have forgotten but some I have not so here we go.

Most recently was Halloween. Most of the time holiday's are for children but there are some that I think should still be for adults. Halloween is one of them. It is the one day out of the year that you can wear pretty much anything you want and get away with it. Like for me wearing a dress to work. Which I would NEVER do, until now (and will probably never do again.) I miss trick-or-treating too. Course that could be just because I LOVE candy. Anyone who knows that can tell you its true! But I had a good Halloween. (Except for the dentist part.) I actually got to dress up at work this year. I have been with Staples for 5 years and this is the first year that we were actually allowed to dress up. And of course I was thinking, "anything to get out of this horrible uniform!" so I dressed up. And my love of being different once again showed itself. I was the only one to dress up at my work. (Everyone at the dentist office was dressed up, that made me feel a little better.) Anyway I had my roommate take a picture of me. I don't think pictures do justice but I guess I'll share my picture. (Don't laugh to hard! Sorry If they are a little blurry!)

Can you guess?

What I Dressed Up As?

Thats right! The Princess That I AM! :)

Number two thing. I have the BEST parents in the world! My dad was visiting me a while ago and saw the situation of my computer. He decided that my situation wasnt working for me and drove all the way from California to me in Utah to better my computer situation! How AWESOME is that!?! And while he was here also helped me out with a few other things like, hanging a picture painted by my grandma on the wall and buying me tools (that I hope I can use one day...and know how to use them!) to fix one of the broken chairs for the kitchen table set! Awesome, huh! My mom is also wonderful! She is always there to lend a listening ear! She is just the best! Even when she needs help over there! ;) (That was for you mom!) :)

Next on my list of things I want to blog about is, I cant remember. Oh no! I'm having half-timers, as my mom calls it. Oh well. Tomorrow is voting day. I'm really excited for it and am actually going into it a little more informed the last time I voted. I really need to get more involved with whats going on. Well I think I'll get some last minute reading in!

P.S. I know it's Thanksgiving time and I really wanted to do a Thanksgiving background but I just couldn't resist but to do birthday because well its my birthday month along with many other of my friends! And that only comes around once a year!